Movie posters are powerful things. They are often instrumental in us forming opinions of a film long before we sit down in a cinema and give a sense of visual style and story to the increasingly lavish and diverse marketing that marks the release of many movies. So notable Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art
Weekend pop art: Want to make life less boring? Just add monsters!
What does the everyday world of commuting, paying taxes and hurried lunches need more of you ask? Why monsters! Yes … MONSTERS. Now if you’re a resident of some nightmarish apocalyptic landscape like The Walking Dead or Alien/s, you may wish to disagree. But I’ll hazard a guess that, Continue Reading
It’s a clones world after all: Orphan Black season 4 photos
SNAPSHOT Sarah (played by the mercurial Tatiana Maslany) returns home from her Icelandic hideout to track down an elusive new ally tied to deceased clone Beth, whose identity Sarah stole in the series’ first episode. With the stakes higher than ever before, Sarah and her sestras band together to Continue Reading
Halloween weekend pop art: 7 stunning monster posters from Universal
If you were out on a dark and stormy night, the last creatures you want to run into would be the likes of Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, The Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Invisible Man. They are pretty argue down Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: “Icons Unmasked” by Alex Solis playfully reveals the real identities of cartoon icons
Oh how I love someone who thinks creatively out of the box. In this case, it’s immensely clever artist Alex Solis who wondered what really lay behind the faces of some of animation’s most recognisable faces. His artistic musings resulted in Icons Unmasked, which pulls back the veneer to Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The force is strong with this office Star Wars Post-It art
Much as I hate to disparage the dedicated interior design professionals who toil to come up with the office environments in which we spend much our walking hours, the truth is most corporate places of work could do with a little more pep and pizzazz. Or Star Wars. Specifically, Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: The Moomins get their otherworldly freak on with Ingella Hallberg’s The Moomin Project
One of the loveliest parts of my childhood was spending countless hours immersed in the Moomintroll (Swedish: Mumintroll) books written by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. What was so lovely about the books was the way the very family-minded Moomins ended up including an idiosyncratically-eclectic group of other characters Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Mark Hammill is hilariously brilliant at signing Star Wars trading cards
We’ve all had something signed by someone fantastically famous at one point or another. Whether it’s a book signing – in my case Hilary St. John Mandel autographing her book Station Eleven at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival – or a Comic-Con line-up to have photos signed the stars of Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Disney princes imagined as handsome real men by Jirka Väätäinen
You’ve got to admit that when it comes to time in the Disney sun, the Disney princesses get pretty much all the attention. But what about the poor Disney princes? Well fret no more for Finnish-born, Australia-resident Jirka Väätäinen has more than made sure than the likes of Prince Eric Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: One film. Two images. Three amazing posters (and then some)
It takes a huge amount of skill to describe a movie in just two instantly recognisable frames but talented Swedish artist and graphic designer Viktor Hertz has managed it with his series of pictograms, an art form with which he has a particular affinity. Created by the graphic designer Continue Reading